• Press Release Carter Family Memorial Music Center, Inc.

Press Release
Carter Family Memorial Music Center, Inc.
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010, at 3:00 p.m., the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia,
will present a concert of gospel music by the Jeanette Williams Band and Doyle Lawson
& Quicksilver. Admission to the concert is $20 for adults for all seating except floor
seating which is $25, $3 for children 11 and under. All seats for this Springtime Gospel
Celebration are reserved. This show will mark Doyle’s second appearance at the Carter
Fold. Tickets are available at Morrell’s Music in Kingsport, Tennessee, or the Mountain
Music Museum in Bristol, Virginia, in the Bristol Mall through Friday, April 30th, 2010.
Tickets are available at the Carter Family Fold Saturdays from noon till closing. Tickets
should be available up until show time. For ticket availability (in the event of a sellout),
please call 276-386-6054 the day of the show.
Performing some of the best bluegrass gospel
music today, the Jeanette Williams Band is sure to
please any audience. Based in Danville, Virginia, the
group has toured the United States, Canada, and Europe.
Jeanette Williams, lead vocalist and bass player,
began her career performing at recreations of the Grand
Ole Opry in 1989. She has been the recipient of a
number of awards including being named the Virginia
Folk Music Association’s State Champion Female
Vocalist, PICABO Entertainer of the Year (4 times), and
PICABO Female Vocalist (4 times). She has garnered
no less than 6 nominations for SPBGMA Female
Vocalist of the Year and is a graduate of IBMA
Leadership Bluegrass.
Jeanette has been featured in Bluegrass Unlim-
ited, Bluegrass Now, and many other magazines and
publications. She has recorded over a dozen projects,
including the critically acclaimed Doobie Shea Records release, Cherry Blossoms in the
Springtime, which spent nine months on the Bluegrass Unlimited National Survey Album
Chart. She is featured on Daughters of Bluegrass Back to the Well - a release that earned
the IBMA Recorded Event of the Year Award in 2006.
The title track of Jeanette’s latest release by Blue Circle Records, Thank you for
Caring, is a duet with country music legend George Jones. Written by Dixie and Tom T.
Hall, the song tells the true story of a little girl Miss Dixie met while gathering items for
the relief effort in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Though the girl’s family had few
material possessions, she unselfishly donated her own furniture and tenderly commented
– “Thank you for caring.” A portion of the proceeds from album sales will be donated to
the American Red Cross for continuing disaster relief. The new CD also features
Jeanette’s award-winning Enough of You – recipient of the Chris Austin Songwriting
Contest (bluegrass division) at MerleFest in 2007. For more information on Jeanette and
her group, go to www.jeanettewilliams.com.
Doyle Lawson has been playing
and singing since he was a boy of 11. He
grew up hearing his family sing in church
groups. Doyle learned to play on a
mandolin his father borrowed from one
of the members of his church quartet.
When he was 14 years old, Doyle met
Jimmy Martin and decided he wanted to
play music for a living. In addition to the
mandolin, he learned to play banjo and
guitar. He worked with Jimmy Martin,
J.D. Crowe, and the Country Gentlemen.
After ten years of playing with others,
Doyle decided he needed a sound of his
own. In 1979, he formed his first group –
Doyle
Lawson & Foxfire. That group quickly became Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. He
patterned the group after his father’s church quartets. Although he’s seen many band
members come and go over the course of 27 years, the group’s sound has remained
virtually unchanged. While he’s recorded some secular music as well as gospel, his
gospel releases far outnumber other releases. Doyle says it’s obvious his gospel music is
what his audiences come to hear. He considers his music a “musical mission.” His group
Quicksilver has won numerous awards, and Doyle has released nearly 40 albums and
CDs. For more information on Quicksilver, go to www.doylelawson.com.
For some of the best bluegrass gospel music this side of Heaven, don’t miss the
Jeanette Williams Band with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver at the Carter Family Fold.
This special Springtime Gospel Celebration is the second of what we hope will be an
annual concert for Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. Come celebrate with us the arrival of
spring and the many blessings we receive daily.
Carter Family Memorial Music Center, Incorporated, is a nonprofit, rural arts
organization established to preserve traditional, acoustic, mountain music. For further
information on the center, go to http://www.carterfamilyfold.org. Shows from the Carter
Family Fold can be accessed on the internet at http://www.carterfoldshow.com. Carter
Music Center is part of the Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail. You can
visit the Crooked Road Music Trail site at http://thecrookedroad.org. Partial funding for
programs at the center is provided by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the
National Endowment for the Arts. For more information on Sunday’s concert, contact the
Mountain Music Museum at 276-645-0035. For recorded information on shows coming
up at the Fold, call 276-386-6054.